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Coherence Versus Decoherence - A few Illustrative Examples


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1 Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan 731 235, India and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bengaluru 560 064, India
 

The interplay of coherence and decoherence is a vexing issue in contemporary condensed matter physics, quantum optics and quantum information theory. We present an overview of this important topical subject, in terms of three different paradigms, in which the 'noisy' effect of the environment on small quantum subsystems is analysed.

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Coherence, Decoherence, Dissipative Diamagnetism, Qubit.
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Authors

Sushanta Dattagupta
Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan 731 235, India and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bengaluru 560 064, India

Abstract


The interplay of coherence and decoherence is a vexing issue in contemporary condensed matter physics, quantum optics and quantum information theory. We present an overview of this important topical subject, in terms of three different paradigms, in which the 'noisy' effect of the environment on small quantum subsystems is analysed.

Keywords


Coherence, Decoherence, Dissipative Diamagnetism, Qubit.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv109%2Fi11%2F1951-1957